Remote Sensing Application in Sustainable Urban Planning and Environmental Services in the Big Data Era
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 32614
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Interests: urban remote sensing; geographic information science; system dynamics; complex system simulation; regional development
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Dear Colleagues,
During the past decades, multiple remote sensing data sources, including nighttime light images, high spatial resolution multispectral satellite images, unmanned drone images, and hyperspectral images, among many others, have provided fresh opportunities to examine the dynamics of urban landscapes. Urban scholars now are equipped with abundant data to examine many theoretical arguments that often resulted from limited and indirect observations and less-than-ideal controlled experiments as manifested from only surveys or statistical yearbooks.
In the meantime, the rapid development of telecommunications and mobile technology and the emergence of online search engines and social media platforms in the past decade has fundamentally changed human activities and the urban landscape. The availability of abundant real-time, geotagged individual pieces of information has drastically changed how scholars see the dynamic urban landscape—for the first time from both a micro and macro level. The seemingly chaotic micro pieces of individual activities are now able to be assembled to macro patterns in almost real time, exhibiting the constantly moving, changing, and evolving urban landscape to urban scholars. Yet, patterns also emerge from observing this dynamic landscape that remain to be explored using newly developed tools and approaches.
The combination of these two types of data sources results in explosive and mind-blowing discoveries in contemporary urban studies, especially for the purposes of sustainable urban planning and development and urban health. Urban scholars are now, for the first time, able to model, simulate, and predict changes in the urban landscape using real-time data to produce the most realistic modeling results, which provides invaluable information for urban planners and governments to aim for a sustainable and healthy urban future. This Special Issue attempts to assemble a cohort of studies that specifically examines how to incorporate the most up-to-date remote sensing data sources and geotagged social media/search engine data to support sustainable urban planning and development and to promote urban health in this new era.
Submissions covering the following areas are specifically encouraged:
- Urban simulations supported by remote sensing and big data
- Mechanisms of urban landscape change
- Spatiotemporal examination of urban landscape
- Noval analytical approaches utilizing remote sensing and big data in urban studies
- Studies of urban vibrancy with remote sensing and big data analytical approaches
- Integrating RS and big data to investigate healthy and sustainable urban development
- Investigating urban environmental services via urban remote sensing and big data
Prof. Dr. Danlin Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- big data described urban landscape
- urban health
- urban remote sensing
- sustainable urban development
- spatiotemporal data analysis in urban studies
- remote sensing and big data supported urban simulation
- urban vibrancy
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